Achieving departmental and individual goals is essential for organizational success. A clearly defined organizational strategy offers clarity and guidance, enabling departments, leaders, and individual contributors to understand work toward success. Below are a few tips on how managers and team members can reach goal accomplishment.

Managers:

• Help team members understand organizational/department goals and priorities.
• Get team members to commit to enacting strategies that lead to goal accomplishment.
• Engage in conversation that defines responsibilities and ensures that strategic priorities are integrated.

Team Members:

• Create a personal vision statement that allows you to visualize the results that you want to achieve.
• Be sure to use SMART goals to organize your goal accomplishment effort.
• Dissect your action plan into smaller steps so you can work toward accomplishing the larger goal.
• Establish timelines to ensure you complete your goals on time.

The tips above will help you accomplish your goals and assist you in helping the organization/department succeed. Click the links to view more tips for managers and team members.